Sarah Alsmiller
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Alsmiller is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with a 4-year professional focus on cloud-native backend systems and distributed infrastructure. She brings practical experience at HashiCorp and prior roles modernizing cloud platforms at The Home Depot and Persefoni, contributing to Kubernetes operations, GCP cost tooling, and automated test/tooling for Go services. An active contributor to HashiCorp's widely used Consul project, she has worked on agent state and peering internals, demonstrating comfort with complex backend logic in Go. Known for quick thinking—honed on stage as an improv comedian—she combines fast problem-solving, clear communication, and a knack for automating developer workflows to ship reliable, scalable systems.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Computer Science, BS Computer Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
consul10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
service-discovery9
service-mesh9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 238 reviews, 169 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sarah contributed to the `hashicorp/consul` repository by merging code changes related to the agent's state management, specifically within the peering functionality. The commits demonstrate involvement in testing, modifying, and debugging peering-related features, including changes to the agent's state store. Their work included modifications to Go code files, indicating a focus on backend logic and internal system components of Consul.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
sarahalsmiller/hcl
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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